Quote by Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

Other quotes by Gilbert Murray

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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Imagination
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Happiness
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Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Robert Anthony

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Happiness

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think thats where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. – Alastair Campbell

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Happiness

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. – William Cowper

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Happiness

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The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease. – William James, 1906 September 11th

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I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating. – Simon Pegg

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