“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety…. One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”
— Victor Hugo, book Les Misérables
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