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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

Happiness is no laughing matter.

—Richard Whately, 1843

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

—Edward Gorey, 1974

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

—Aldous Huxley, 1956

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.

—George Eliot, 1844

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.

—William James, 1902

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.

—Cyril Connolly, 1944

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

—Herodotus, c. 430 BC

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1664

Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.

—Thomas Paine, 1792

Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.

—Democritus, c. 420 BC

He who would be happy should stay at home.

—Greek proverb