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The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
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Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.
Rumi
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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
Mark Twain
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler
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Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
Felicity Huffman
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Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
Josef Pieper
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Jean Racine
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I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.
Allison Janney
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He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?
Libba Bray
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
Victor Hugo
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Christian Nestell Bovee