Quote by Ashley Montagu
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not t

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu

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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone. – Ashley Montagu

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alone
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One goes through school, college, medical school and ones internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. – Ashley Montagu

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Learning
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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. – Ashley Montagu

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Medical
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A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. – Author Unknown

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. – Walter Savage Landor

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I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. – Queen Victoria

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Happiness

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