My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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This Saturday: a quotation from Adam Smith.

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“Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness, which is always founded upon a peculiar relish for all the little pleasures which common occurrences afford. We readily sympathize with it: it inspires us with the same joy.” –Adam Smith.

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