HAPPY HOURS.
An accurate observer says:—Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence from the memory of it. childhood passed with a mixture of rational indulgence, under fond and wise parents, diffuses over the whole life a feeling of calm pleasure ; and in extreme old age is the very last remembrance which time can erase from the mind of man. No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is the happier for life for haying once made an agreeable tour, or lived any length of time with pleasant people, or lived any considerable interval of innocent pleasure, which con« tributes to render old men so inattentive to the scenes before them, and carries them back to a world that is passed, and to scenes which are never to be renewed again.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4490, 26 May 1883, Page 2
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150HAPPY HOURS. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4490, 26 May 1883, Page 2
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