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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Norman Douglas

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Norman Douglas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1868
Born: December 8
Died: 1952
Died: February 9
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