"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy."
"I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it."
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Source: Stately as a Galleon by Joyce Grenfell, English Lit., 1978.
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