What is all that ministerial toil and effort for, if not a constant attempt to allow the greatest number to live in as much happiness as possible
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
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