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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

you seek to analyze contentment you go at it negatively. To feel well means 102 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS you do not have head-ache, tooth-ache nor toe-ache, you have no dyspepsia, catarrh, gout, sciatica, hives, nausea, boils, cancer, grippe, rhinitis, iritis, appendicitis nor any other itis. And to determine your joy you must reckon by checking off and eliminating the factors of possible pain. Answer-happy, if no pain discoverable. So elusive is joy! Some day try reversing this process. Note all the pleasurable things. For instance, a good sleep, a delightful snooze in bed after you ought to get up, a delicious bath, the invigorating caress of cold water, a good breakfast, with somebody you love visible across the coffee-cups, a half-hour's diversion with the newspaper, the flash of nature's loveliness outdoors as you go to work, inter­esting faces on the street car, pleasures of your business, pleasant relations with your FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 103 fellow-workers, meeting old friends and new faces, the good story some one tells you, and

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