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Excerpt from Optimism: An Essay
Most people measure their happi ness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which the have set on the horizon, how happy they. Would be. Lacking this ift or that circum stance, they won] be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have eve reason to sit in a corner with folde hands, and weep. Ifi am happy.l 1n spite of my deprivations, if m appiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
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