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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

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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. – Charles Spurgeon

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Crying is cleansing. Theres a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. – Dionne Warwick

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