The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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If that indeed were love at all,As still, my love, I trow,
By what dear name am I to call
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you.
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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