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Irving Babbitt

"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."

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"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."

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"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."

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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."

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"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"

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"We savour on great memories of happy times."

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"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."

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"The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy."

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"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
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"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
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"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
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"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
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"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
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"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
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"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."
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