Jonathan Swift Quotes About Happiness
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
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For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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