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«There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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a people, claiming, fatuous, good part, ills, indecent, lamentable, miseries, modern world, phrase, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertaken
«And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? / Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.»
«To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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beg, begs, bespeak, bespeaks, bespoke, lamentable, Our Daily Bread
«Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Happiness
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lamentable, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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enemy, lamentable, mankind, patriot, rest, The Enemy, The Patriot