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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. – Godfrey Reggio

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson

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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. – William Shakespeare

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