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| It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence |  |
| "You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis |  |
| Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let it eat him away. | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities |  |
| "I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!" | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |  |
| I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. | Ayn Rand | Anthem |  |
| To see their sons and daughters so flushed and healthy and happy, gave them also a reflected glow, and it was hard to say who had most pleasure from the game, those who played or those who watched. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Beyond the City |  |
| . . . she better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge |  |
| They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome |  |
| "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." | L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |  |
| "I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart." | L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |  |