Happiness Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

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