Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases.. view

By: John Keats

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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare... view

By: Bainbridge Colby

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure... view

By: Michael Korda

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There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it... view

By: Josh Billings

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I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much... view

By: Brett Somers

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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended... view

By: Felix Adler

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern... view

By: Alfred North Whitehead

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness... view

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself... view

By: Al Sharpton

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Love begets love. This torment is my joy... view

By: Theodore Roethke

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I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy... view

By: Alban Berg

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