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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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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. – James Smithson

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The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. – Richard Eyre

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. – Proverb

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. – Pearl S. Buck

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