Hugh Seymour Walpole

Tedium is the misfortune experienced by happy people.

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Charles Régismanset

The jealousy of others has the advantage, at least sometimes, that it makes us aware of how happy we actually are.

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Abel Jean Henri Dufresne

Boredom is the illness suffered by happy people.

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Pearl S. Buck

For many people, little joys are lost while they hold out for great happiness.

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Thomas B. Aldrich

To keep your heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, cheerful, reverent. That is to triumph over old age!

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Jerome K. Jerome

There is no perfect happiness, said the man when his mother-in-law died and he was presented with the bill for the funeral.

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Marcel Achard

In order to be happy in love, one must know, without losing sight, how to close one's eyes.

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André Gide

Not in making an effort to find pleasure, but in finding pleasure in the effort, that's the secret to my happiness.

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André Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her

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Friedrich Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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