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One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for

One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness
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Gustave Flaubert
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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell

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Happiness

Happiness does not consist in self-love. – Joseph Butler

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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. – Dr. Melba Colgrove

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What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. – Malcolm Mclaren

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. – J. B. Priestley

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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. – Mark Twain

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