Happy Thought
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Stevenson packs a whole philosophy into two tiny lines. The speaker, almost certainly a child or someone thinking like one, looks at the world and sees an endless supply of interesting, wonderful things — bugs, stars, friends, stories, treats — and draws a logical conclusion: with all that…
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