Author of the classic Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert famously declared: âTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.â. Albert Schweitzer said âHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.â.
1 A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen).  A great gross refers to a group of 1728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen).
When Gross was in Congress, a special exception was made to the practice that bills offered in the House were numbered consecutively. The number H.R. 144 was reserved each session for one of Representative Gross's bills (because 144 equals one gross, making its title the arithmetical equivalent to his name).