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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less o

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – 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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The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery. – Frederick Douglass

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Happiness? No, its not there for me. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J. D. Salinger

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. – Wilson Mizner

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My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. – Roger Federer

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Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. – Don Hays

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To literature belongs the mighty privilege of embalming, for all ages, the departed kings of intellect. There they repose within the eternal pyramids of their fame. – Robert Aris Willmott, “Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature,” c.1844

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