A truism that happens to be true

Check out this great article from a sage in our times, Reed Jolley:

Money can’t buy happiness, is a truism that happens to be true. Certainly poverty can produce misery, and most of us, if given a choice, would rather be miserable from the perch of plenty than in the den of disadvantage. But, then again, most of us have plenty. Yet happiness eludes us. (read more)