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"A Cheerful Temper" is a short story by renowned author Hans Christian Andersen. It explores the life of a young girl endowed with optimism and positivity. Despite existing in fairly dismal social conditions, she remains resilient, drawing strength from her cheerful temperament. This heartwarming tale encourages its audience to embrace cheerfulness and positivity in spite of circumstances, promoting the belief that the secret to a content life is a happy heart.

• Children

								

other.  If the newspapers, or even the whole world, said of a certain
subject, "It is so-and-so;" and a little schoolboy declared he had
learned quite differently, they would take his assertion as the only
true one, because he belonged to the family.  And it is well known that
if the yard-cock belonging to this family happened to crow at
midnight, they would declare it was morning, although the watchman and
all the clocks in the town were proclaiming the hour of twelve at
night.

The great poet Goethe concludes his Faust with the words, "may
be continued;" so might our wanderings in the churchyard be continued.
I come here often, and if any of my friends, or those who are not my
friends, are too much for me, I go out and choose a plot of ground
in which to bury him or her.  Then I bury them, as it were; there
they lie, dead and powerless, till they come back new and better
characters.  Their lives and their deeds, looked at after my own
fashion, I write down in my diary, as every one ought to do.  Then,
if any of our friends act absurdly, no one need to be vexed about
it.  Let them bury the offenders out of sight, and keep their good
temper.  They can also read the Intelligencer, which is a paper written
by the people, with their hands guided.  When the time comes for the
history of my life, to be bound by the grave, then they will write
upon it as my epitaph--

  "The man with a cheerful temper."

And this is my story.


[1] "I want a voice," or, "I have no voice."
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