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That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?

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Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and w...more

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

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What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

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I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good b...more

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…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.