Quote by Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and no

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. – William Feather

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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that theyre somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? – Dan Savage

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