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Quote by Joseph Butler
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. – Joseph Butler

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. – Joseph Butler

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If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. – William Beveridge

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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. – Carlo Collodi

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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness, not by each others misery. – Charlie Chaplin

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