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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. – Joyce Grenfell

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

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