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Norman Douglas

"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

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"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

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"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

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"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."

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"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."
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