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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Erne

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway (Thanks, Schanna)

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is not a fragrant world. – Raymond Chandler

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It is people who make me seasick—not the sea. But I am afraid that science has yet to find a solution for this ailment. – Albert Einstein, 1930

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