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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death. |
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