“all at once
I saw
that the sun
was round! Since then
I have been the happiest man on Earth!”
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 29
“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.
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