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Quote by George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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George Eliot
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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. – Leon Kass

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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy? – Albert Einstein

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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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