It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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