APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
This may not be the best of all po.s.siole worlds, but to say that it ns the worst is mere petulant nonsense. A worn-out voluptuary may find nothing good under the. sun, or a vain and inexperienced youth, who cannot get the moon iie cries for may vent his irritation in pessimistic meanings; but tliere can he no doubt in the mind or any reasonable person that mankind could, Mould, and ]n fact do, get on fairly well with vastly less happiness and tar more misery than find their way into the lives of nine people out of ten. Jf each and all of us had been-visited by an attack of neuralgia, or of extreme mental* depression, for one hour in every twentyiour—a supposition which many tolerably vigorous people" know, to their cost, is not extravagant—the burden of life would have been immensely increased without much practical hindrance to its general course. Men with any manhood in them had life quite worth living under worse conditions limn these.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1932, Page 1
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171APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1932, Page 1
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