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    Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.

    Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much.They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a deserted hut.

    Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅) , a royal palace.  Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room.  Here are several rooms your house of life should have.

    Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.

    Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.

    Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.

    Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the had days, if you could, and did, play a bit.

    Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.

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    Lisa was a lovely girl.When Lisa was 9, her family decided to move across the country to California because Lisa's father found a good job in California.Before they moved, Lisa's parents had to take a trip to California to find a house where they would live.

    “We will be gone for two weeks.”Lisa's mother said.“While we are gone, you will stay with Aunt Betsy.”

    Aunt Betsy lived several hours away, in a big city.Lisa had never stayed with Aunt Betsy, so she didn't know what to bring for her visit.The weather was warm,so she put some shorts and T-shirts in a bag.She put some books in another bag because she liked reading.Mostly she read books about horses.

    When the day calve.Aunt Betsy drove to Lisa's house to pick her up.Lisa hugged(拥抱)her parents and said goodbye.

    Several hours later, they got to Aunt Betsy's home.Lisa found Aunt Betsy lived in a beautiful apartment.Aunt Betsy led Lisa to her room.It was a small but clean room.Then Lisa noticed something on the wall.She saw a picture of a tall, reddish—brown(红褐色的)horse.The horse was very beautiful.Aunt Betsy was in the picture,standing beside the horse.

    “That's Ruby,”Aunt Betsy said.

    Lisa asked.“Is that your horse?''

    Aunt Betsy said“No,I ride her sometimes.She belongs to a stable(马房)not far away.”

    Lisa emptied her book bag onto the bed.She said.“I love horses.I read a lot of books about horses.”She asked.“Can we visit Ruby?”

    Aunt Betsy smiled.She said“Of course.We can even go out tiding.”

    Lisa couldn't be happier. She and her aunt had something m common.It was going to he a great adventure(冒险)!