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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means...more