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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ↗

— William Blake

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. ↗

— Islom Karimov

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