“For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.”
— Herman Hesse
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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”
— Mary Wortley
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“With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.”
— Nassau William Senior
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“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.”
— Thor Heyerdahl
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“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.”
— Bryant H. McGill
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“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”
— James Smithson
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“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.”
— Andy Rooney
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“I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.”
— Taylor Caldwell
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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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