HOW TO BECOME UNHAPPY.
Xq the first place, if you want to fca miserable, be selfish. Think.all the time of yourself, and of your own things. Don't care about anybody else* Have no feel* ing. for anyone bat yourself. Never think of - enjoying the satisfaction of see* ing others happy; but rather, if you se» a smiling face, be jealous, lest another should enjoy what you hare not. Envy all who are better off in any respect than yourself; think unkindly toward them, Ini speak slightly of them. Be con* staatly afraid lest some one should encroaeu upon-your rights;. be watchful against it, and if, anyone cornel pear you* snap at hint like a mad dog. Contend earnestly for «rery thing |hat; if your own, though it may not be worth a pin; for , your "rights are just as much conoernea •b' if it were a pound of gojd. Nerer yield a point. Be Tery sensitire, and take every thing that is said to yon i* playfulness in the most serious manner. Be jealous of your friends,y left they should not think enough of you;§Miff at any time they should seem to neglect you, put the worst construction upon their conduct you can. J
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3171, 18 April 1879, Page 1
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204HOW TO BECOME UNHAPPY. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3171, 18 April 1879, Page 1
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