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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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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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Morning
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My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I havent fallen since. – Hugh Laurie

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dad
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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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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Happiness

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. – Omar Bongo

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Happiness

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. – Queen Victoria

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Happiness

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

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Happiness

Random Quotes

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland

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Sons

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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Religion

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more. – will.i.am

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Success

Science is facts. – Henri Poincare

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Science