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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which i

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley

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With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. – Benjamin Franklin

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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