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"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."
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"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
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"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
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"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
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