Who is the happiest of men He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Who is the happiest of men He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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