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" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

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" The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. "

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" Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. "

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