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It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

Alice Hegan Rice

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Trying
Almost
Make
Happiness
Men
Happy
Confer
People
Upon
Untold
Fact
Fellow
Facts
Fellows
Seems
Benefits
Important
Strange

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