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How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Saul, ix...
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
-- Old Testament -- Numbers xxiv, 5...
How happy could I be with either, Were t' other dear charmer away!
-- John Gay (1688-1732) -- The Beggar's Opera, Act ii, Sc. 2...
How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will
Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!...
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Eloisa to Abelard, Line 207...
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business! -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 725
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can.
And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance...
How high I am How much I see How far I reach Depends on me
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
-- Katherine Mansfield...

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