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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant

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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. – Margaret Oliphant

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Gentlemen
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Margaret Oliphant
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant

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Industry
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. – Plato

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. – Ogden Nash

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