A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. (Thomas Carlyle)

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

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