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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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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

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"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."

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"Always ask yourself what will make you happy over the long term."

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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."

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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."
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"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."
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"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."
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"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."
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"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."
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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
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