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in ill health, then you shall be happy. If you are old, you try to live in old age, then you shall be happy.”

Now, living in it is not living with it, Assimilation is not the proper word; to say to lose yourself in a condition of evanesence might be a better expression. And to lose it is to gain it. The best swimmer never struggles against the wave; and you have to go to the darkness of night for the light of day. There is a secret to turn misery or unhappiness on the spot to happiness by the magic of your conception (Oh the attitude!); and simple it is. If you say it tells only a half truth, I will say to you that the half truth can become the whole truth upon the shortest notice.

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