Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Happiness
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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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