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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment. – Proverb

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – John Dewey

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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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