Quote by Margaret Oliphant
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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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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For me, love is happiness and inspiration. – Leona Lewis

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. – William Burroughs

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True religion… is giving and finding ones happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. – William J. H. Boetcker

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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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If the Liberals law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. – Stockwell Day

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Never repeat old grievances. – Proverb

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