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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which p

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. – Charles Sumner

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. – Charles Sumner

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War
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Charles Sumner
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. – Charles Sumner

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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. – Thomas Huxley

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Happiness is no respecter of persons. – Stephen Fry

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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford

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Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

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