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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some nat...more

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

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Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure...more