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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. ↗

— John Howe

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ↗

— Bette Midler

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