Sydney Smith: Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years h

Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy — Sydney Smith

Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Sydney Smith

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