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Today's reading was edited and adapted from the book, Happiness, by Hugh Black, published in 1911.

Okay. by Hugh Black, published in 1911. There is an art of happiness which is like the art of living.

No list of rules can cover all the ground,

for a life does not go in straight lines, and never runs

exactly according to schedule.

There is also the personal equation, the peculiar angle from which each person looks at life.

Now it's true that no arc can be taught beyond certain broad principles and general rules.

The rest has to come through constant practice and through the enrichment of the mind,

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