Tuesday, March 06, 2007

What do you want from life?


"Madame de Gaulle was asked after the death of her husband General de Gaulle what she wanted most during the rest of her life. She was asked the question by an English reporter, and so she gave the answer in English: "Happyness". Unfortunately her English accent was rather fractured, and so the assembled throng grasped at what seemed to be remarkable Gallic frankness of what she had just said. Since she failed to pronounce the "h", she appeared to be referring in unambiguous terms to the most distinctive and celebrated part of the male anatomy."

Michael W. Eysenck. Happiness: Facts and Myths. Psychology Press (UK). 1990 p. 1.

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