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" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "

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" Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident. "

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" One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. "

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" To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole. "

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" Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. "

" We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. "

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" From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. "

" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

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" Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization. "

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" Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. "

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" A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. "

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