Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the miser…

Ambrose Bierce
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2000). Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories, p.26, Penguin
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2000). Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories, p.26, Penguin

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