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All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Sydney Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 113 · printed citation: Sydney Smith · subject: Happiness
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