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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Approximate author period: c. 1866 AD · industrial
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- Robert Green Ingersoll
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- Approximate author period: c. 1866 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Robert Green Ingersoll, based on documented lifetime 1833 to 1899. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469882 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469882 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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