If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you...

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If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
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Indochinese Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, garden, wife, life.


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