The Pursuit of Happiness. a book of Studies And Strowings
The book The Pursuit of Happiness. a book of Studies And Strowings was written by author Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 Here you can read free online of The Pursuit of Happiness. a book of Studies And Strowings book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Pursuit of Happiness. a book of Studies And Strowings a good or bad book?
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I agree with him that " the pleasantest work of human indus- try is the improvement of something which we may call our own." There is something in itself delightfiil in the mere sense of ownership of a part of the siu-face of the earth. It was not mere greed in Cosmo de Medici, who, when asked why he preferred his villa in the Apennines to his palace in Florence, replied, — " Because there, every foot of land I see is my own." No prospect is quite so pleasing as that of our own acres, and those... governments are strongest which base their institutions on the personal tenure of land. HOUSE-BUILDING. 85 The old proverb prescribes the chief duties of a man to be to build a house and beget a child. The character of his child he can but slightly control ; the plan of his house is in his own hands, and his health and happiness are deeply involved in it. "He that builds a fair house on an ill site," observes Bacon, "committeth himself to prison;" and I may add, he that builds an ill house on any site, sends himself and family to a hospital.
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