22. The Turnpike Road of Happiness

Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever

loves a woman so well that he says, "I will make her happy," makes no

mistake; and so with the woman who says, "I will make him happy." There

is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and

you can't be happy cross-lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike

road.

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