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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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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. – Ayn Rand

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another mans eyes. – William Shakespeare

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It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating ones uses. – Sarah Orne Jewett

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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. – Fiona Shaw

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