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Happiness is no laughing matter.

—Richard Whately, 1843

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

—Fernand Braudel, 1979

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

—Iris Murdoch, 1978

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

—Jane Austen, 1814

Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1599

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

—André Gide, 1897

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

—Jean Anouilh, 1934

The happy ending is our national belief.

—Mary McCarthy, 1947

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

—Edward Gorey, 1974

In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

—Boethius, c. 520

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

—Rebecca West, 1939