Happiness

"Happiness," Ostap reasoned, " always comes at the last minute. If you have the Smolensk market need to take the tram number 4, and there, except for the fourth, are still the fifth, seventeenth, fifteenth, thirtieth, thirty-first, B, G and two bus lines, then be sure that the first will be held G, then two fifteenth in a row, which is generally unnatural, then seventeenth, thirtieth, many B, again G, thirty-first, fifth, again seventeenth and again And that's when you begin to feel that the fourth issue does not already exist in nature, it will slowly come from the Bryansk station full of people. But to get into the car for a skilled tram passenger is not difficult. We just need the tram to come. If you need to sit down in the fifteenth number, there's no doubt that first pass a lot of cars of all the other rooms, you damn fourth will be held eight times in a row, and the fifteenth, which is still so recently went through every five minutes, will appear no more than once per day. You just need patience, and you will wait."

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