One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

They publiGeorge Sandd a few stories in collaboration signing them "Jules Sand. In 1848 he returned to Paris from a tour of the UK and died at the Place Vendôme.

Amantine (also "Amandine") Lucile Aurore Dupin (French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]) later Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876) best known by her pseudonym George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]) was a French novelist and memoirist.