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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the heig

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a mans stature as to his happiness. – Laurence Sterne

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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. – Laurence Sterne

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Death
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Laurence Sterne
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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the Kings highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? – Laurence Sterne

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Eccentric, Eccentricity
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. – Zoe Saldana

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A smile is happiness youll find right under your nose. – Tom Wilson

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Weve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because thats easier. Its much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. – Emma Thompson

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When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. – Sophocles

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There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. – John Harold Johnson

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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard days work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. – J. K. Rowling

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