If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps
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  2. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time. - Mario Puzo

  4. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. - Arthur Golden

  5. It's hard to love a woman and do anything. - Leo Tolstoy

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  1. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.

  2. The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

  3. The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

  4. One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

  5. That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

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