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Cheerfulness as a Life Power

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Cheerfulness as a Life Power

Orison Swett Marden

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Vanderbilt once paid handsomely for twelve laughs, and Marden opens with the receipt. His little volume prescribes cheerfulness as the cure for Americanitis, oil for your business machinery, and fun taken daily like work. Optimism argued as economics, not temperament. Sixty pages of sunshine with a business plan.

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10 chapters

  1. 1A FOREWORD.
  2. 2TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. 3CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER.
  4. 4I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.
  5. 5II. THE CURE FOR AMERICANITIS.
  6. 6III. OILING YOUR BUSINESS MACHINERY.
  7. 7IV. TAKING YOUR FUN EVERY DAY AS YOU DO YOUR WORK.
  8. 8V. FINDING WHAT YOU DO NOT SEEK.
  9. 9VI. "LOOKING PLEASANT"—SOMETHING TO BE WORKED FROM THE INSIDE.
  10. 10VII. THE SUNSHINE-MAN.
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