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" There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Family

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" Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "

" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "

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" The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. "

" The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. "

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" Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. "

" I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. "

" A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late. "

" Freedom is for fun. "

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