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" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "

Alexandre Dumas

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" Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. "

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" Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! "

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" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "

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" There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. "

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" You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. "

" To forget oneself is to be happy. "

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" One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. "

" Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. "

" Happiness can exist only in acceptance. "

" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

" While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. "

" I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. "

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" Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. "

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