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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. – William Weld

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

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Happiness is a form of courage. – Holbrook Jackson

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. – David Herbert Lawrence

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