“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”
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The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.