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Show HAPPY HOURS. An accurate observer says: 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. A childhood passed with a mixture of rational indulgence, under kind and wise parents, diffuses over the whole of life a feeling of calm pleasure; and, in extreme old age, is the very last remembrance which time can erase from the mind of man. No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is the happier for life for having made once an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time with pleasant people, or enjoyed any considerable interval of innocent pleasure, which contribute to render old men so inattentive to the scenes before them, and carries them back to a world that is past, and to scenes never to be renewed again. |