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Quote by Horatio Nelson
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. – Horatio Nelson

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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. – Horatio Nelson

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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. – Bertrand Russell

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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. – Polly Toynbee

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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. – Meir Kahane

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine

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