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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"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."

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."

"The reward of life is Joy."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich."
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"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."

"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."

"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
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