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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

CHAPTER 7
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You belong to a singular race.

Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness-machine combined.

The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle.

For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen.
In most cases the man's life is about equally divided between happiness and unhappiness.

When this is not the case the unhappiness predominates--always; never the other.


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