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

"Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

"Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible."

"Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"A joyful life, life of contentment."

"Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job."
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"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

"It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building."

"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."

"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions."
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