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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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We are finite beings: there can be no infinite happiness for us. The soul that dreams it and pursues it will embrace but a shadow.
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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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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Honoré de Balzac
Born:
May 20, 1799
Died:
August 18, 1850
(aged 51)
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