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I admit I cant shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, t

I admit I cant shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. – Hugh Laurie

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I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. – Hugh Laurie

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History
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People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when youre not looking for it. – Hugh Laurie

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Happiness
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Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. Youre free of the gravity of what people think. – Hugh Laurie

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. – Alexander Smith

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To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness

Ones happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. – Bishop Mandell Creighton

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Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. – Gustav Stresemann

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