June 26, 2004
An agreeable sensation arising from
contemplating the misery of another.
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The weather has been unseasonably cool for the
past two weeks. It was on the cool side today, but it's a
pretty day on Au Train Lake. Today's photo shows our dock at
Dana's Lakeside Resort.
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Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil's Dictionary," offered the following
definition: "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from
contemplating the misery of another." Well, there's no need to
be that cynical. But, given some of the things we've learned
about happiness, let's be grateful that we merely have a right to
pursue it, not a duty.
Jim Holt,
from his New York Times article titled "Against Happiness."
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