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“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady and diplomat
You Learn by Living (1960), p. 95
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