To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for…

Gustave Flaubert
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, p.62, Harvard University Press
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, p.62, Harvard University Press

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