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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Approximate author period: c. 1921 AD · modern

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Bertrand Russell
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Approximate author period: c. 1921 AD · modern
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