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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
         

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.


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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
         



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