Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are-they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.

Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are-they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler

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A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip: there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
- Samuel Butler
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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are-they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending. Samuel Butler

Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are-they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler