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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, and of all they are willing to endure.
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, and of all they are willing to endure.
Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
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- William James
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- Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
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