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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman; the foundation of political happiness is confidence in the integrity of man; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal, is reliance on the goodness of God.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman; the foundation of political happiness is confidence in the integrity of man; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal, is reliance on the goodness of God.
Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- Walter Savage Landor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1775–1864)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 112 · printed citation: Landor · subject: Happiness
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