Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ✨ Ernest H…

Ernest Hemingway
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). Garden of Eden, p.95, Simon and Schuster
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