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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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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. – Rob Thomas, “3A.M.”

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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. – Herman Hesse

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. – George Orwell

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