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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."
"He is rich that is satisfied."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men."
"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"Might not live long but I know I'ma die happy."
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"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"
"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."
"Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category."
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