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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
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"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
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"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."
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"Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like."
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"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."
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"Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security."
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"If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined."
Society

"Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness."
Adventure

"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature

"People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing."
Psychology

"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."
Philosophy

"He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes."
Observation

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."
Education

"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith

"If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow."
Art

"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."
Morality
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