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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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