Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. (Sydney Smith)

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Sydney Smith

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