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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. – John Grierson

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. – John Stuart Mill

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. – George Santayana

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. – George Sand

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908

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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. Were all entitled to have the best we can. – Loretta Swit

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