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Quote by Francis Hutcheson
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. – Francis Hutcheson

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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. – Candace Bushnell

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant

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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. – Kitty Kelley

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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. – Winston Churchill

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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum

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