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Quote by Irving Babbitt
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

Other quotes by Irving Babbitt

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. – Irving Babbitt

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Science
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Irving Babbitt
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. – Anton Chekhov

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Happiness

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Aeschylus

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Happiness

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. – Herman Hesse

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Happiness

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Happiness

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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. – Arthur Miller

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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. – Jim Morrison

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The most useless are those who never change through the years. – James M. Barrie

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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when youre a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. – Joe DiMaggio

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