“Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.”
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
