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Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness. Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. If you told me that I would live one year longer if I ate only broccoli or asparagus or whatever . . . I'd rather eat what I like and enjoy eating what I like than eat something I don't and live another year. And I do think that choice should be mine. Maybe sugar is harmful and maybe you'd encourage the government to ban sugar ... But I think Coca-Cola has been a very positive factor in the country and the world. And I really don't want anyone telling me I can't drink it. I think there's something in longevity of feeling happy about your life. |
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