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To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.
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Lord Kelvin’s Replies to Addresses given on the Celebration of the Jubilee of his Professorship (June 15-17, 1896). Quoted in Lord Kelvin, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow 1846-1899 by George F. Fitzgerald, 1899. Full Text

 

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