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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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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. – Leonard Boswell

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. – English Proverb

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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think thats where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. – Alastair Campbell

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When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. – Paul Ryan

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