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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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Poetry
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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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Imagination
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. – Ogden Nash

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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you arent happy in one place, chances are you wont be happy anyplace. – Ernie Banks

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. – Joyce Meyer

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Thats the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! – Robert Browning

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I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted. – John Lee Hancock

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I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. – William E. Simon

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