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Mankind are always 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.
Mankind are always 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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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 45; printed byline: Sydney Smith; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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