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Updated: June 21, 2025
His happinesses and ambitions appeared to him less than the scattering of a little sand on the sea-shore.
And them men ort to hug themselves thinkin' the thought, over three thousand happinesses wuz set down to their credit in the books of the Recordin' Angel. And I sez to myself, "Samantha, you ort to speak well of anything that so brightens the lives of the children of the great city."
It was to seem to him in retrospection that neither for the next half-hour began a sentence without this formula. It was as if they sought to use it as a master-word wherewith to reanimate the happinesses and sorrows of their common past, and as if they found the charm was potent to awaken the thin, powerless ghosts of emotions that were once despotic.
He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool's, pumped from the wells of nothing, to be dissipated by a reproach or a curse; it was the wrath peculiar to ardent natures rudely awakened by the sudden annihilation of a hope dream, if you will in which the choicest happinesses were thought to be certainly in reach.
There were tears in the woman's eyes. But Deulin's smile was sadder. "And this is the end," he said "the end!" "No," said Lady Orlay; "it is not. It cannot be. I have never known a great happiness yet that was not built upon the wreckage of other happinesses. That is why happy people are never gay. It is not the end, Paul. Heaven is kind." "Sometimes," answered Deulin, grudgingly.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one! keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. After visits to Maryborough and some other Australian towns, we presently took passage for New Zealand. If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is; for he is as I was; he thinks he knows.
Rapid enough was to be the weaving, and Ellisville was early enough to become acquainted with the joys and sorrows, the strivings and the failures, the happinesses and bitternesses of organized humanity. There are those who sneer at the communities of the West, and who classify all things rural as crude and unworthy, entitled only to tolerance, if they be spared contempt.
Each stage of communal growth reduces the number of men set apart for defence or police duty. There is a corresponding increase in the common store of human possessions and human happinesses.
We shall catch the shadows of other people's happinesses. It is, I believe, the sincerest form. The chicken, dear Julien, what of the chicken?" Julien hesitated. "There is little to be said against it," he confessed. "The only trouble is that it fails to arrive."
The attendant was before the door, and she asked him very politely: "Ten thousand happinesses! Is not this the house of Fan and Erh-lang?" "Certainly it is, small lady." "Could you not lead me to him?" "Assuredly," he answered.
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