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“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”— Samuel Johnson
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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”— James Madison
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“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”— Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”— Edmund Burke
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“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”— Victor Hugo
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“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”— Henry Ford
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“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”— Johnny Carson
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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”— Albert Einstein
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“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”— Helen Keller
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“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”— William Shakespeare
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“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”— Napoleon Hill
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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”— Aristotle
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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”— William Blake
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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”— Samuel Johnson
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“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”— Bertrand Russell
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“A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.”— Tom Wilson
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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”— Leo Tolstoy
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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”— Aldous Huxley
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“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”— Victor Hugo