If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden.… He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar stud that has rolled under the dressing table.

—W. Beran Wolfe

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If you observe a really happy man, you will find… that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

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24 Oct 2015 Added
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If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. . . . He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar stud that has rolled under the dressing table.