. My idealed John Bullesses . u can buyevery nice thing which you want ? She smiled sweetly in silence. Surely she wentinto a dream—a dream of all sorts of her common sense (I may say the regularBritish sense) awakened her conscience from herdream. She covered her face with her hands andsaid to me, No, no, no. If I can buy everythingI want I may be easily spoilt. Where is my hap-piness then ? You cannot imagine how much mybrain is working every time when I go these excitements make me feel worth while myliving. For instance, sometimes I intended to buya dress for
. My idealed John Bullesses . u can buyevery nice thing which you want ? She smiled sweetly in silence. Surely she wentinto a dream—a dream of all sorts of her common sense (I may say the regularBritish sense) awakened her conscience from herdream. She covered her face with her hands andsaid to me, No, no, no. If I can buy everythingI want I may be easily spoilt. Where is my hap-piness then ? You cannot imagine how much mybrain is working every time when I go these excitements make me feel worth while myliving. For instance, sometimes I intended to buya dress for ;^io or £!§. But when I go to mydressmaker I see some dress exactly suits me, andit is ;^2o. After a great hesitation I buy it. Onall the way home my mind is very busy—halfhappy and the other half unhappy. Then whenmy dress is finished I put it on, and if all myfriends admire me in this dress I am turned intoperfect happiness. Being much encouraged by this kind of happi-ness, I try to save more money for the next SOCIAL LIFE 43 Dont you think I am much happier as I am nowthan to be a millionaire ? I paid much of my wordless admiration to said to myself, She is a real John Bulless ! John Bulless knows exactly her own position,and never dreams fools paradise. Perhaps in hermind she may rebel against herself, and may evendream a fools paradise, but she has a wonderfulconscience to come back to herself. Besides thisfact, I have learnt a great deal of philosophiesthrough that John Bulless lecture. That is to say, to be satisfied in some unsatisfactory condition isthe utmost happiness of the humans. We havea proverb, To be quite fulfilled is the sign ofdeclining. For this reason I love the bud morethan fully blossomed flower, and the crescent morethan the full moon. To-yen-Mei (a famous ancient Chinese poet) didnot philosophise himself in this way. For helamented in his poetry : How long am I going tokeep my human shape in this world } Wealth andfame are not my de
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