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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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Industry
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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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I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. – Islom Karimov

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Happiness

You can’t postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau

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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. – Ovid

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Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose. – C.S. Lewis (Screwtape letter)

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