THOSE WHO HAVE IT/THOSE WHO DON’T
One day a young friend of Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, noticed that the celebrated thinker was in a state of deep and profound contemplation. The young man asked, “Why so meditative?” Russell replied: “Because I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant [wise scholar] I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.” As quoted by Clifton Fadiman in The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, page 483.
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