Thursday, August 20, 2020
QED
Robert Louis Stevenson, "An Apology for Idlers," Familiar Studies, Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1912), pp. 300-309 (at 307):
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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Livableness of Life.
