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Quote by Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate success

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille

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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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He who avoids complaint invites happiness. – Abu Bakr

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them. – Thomas Traherne

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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