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This is going to be a happy day. Another happy day.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Winnie, in Happy Days, p. 23, Grove Press (1961).)
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 165 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
(Billy Wilder (b. 1906), Austrian-born U.S. film director, producer, writer, and Charles Brackett (1892-1969), U.S. screenwriter. Phillips (Walter Abel), Arise My Love, after Augusta gets a plum assignment in Berlin, and four other times during the film (1940).)
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In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity:
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. In Drear-nighted December (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Choros Translations.")
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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 6 (1891).)
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Forget your troubles and just get happy.
(Ted Koehler (1894-1973), U.S. songwriter. "Get Happy," Remick Music Corp. (1930).
Music composed by Harold Arlen (1905-1986).)
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Timely blossom, Infant fair,
Fondling of a happy pair,
(Ambrose Philips (1675-1749), British poet. To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother's Arms (l. 7-10). . .
New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.)
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Happy is the nation without a history.
(Cesare Beccaria (1735-1794), Italian jurist, philosopher. On Crimes and Punishments, Introduction (1764).
Thomas Carlyle attributes a similar utterance to Charles de Montesquieu, in History of Frederick the Great (1858-1865) bk. 16, ch. 1: "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!")
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The happy ending is our national belief.
(Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), U.S. author, critic. "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub," pt. 1, On the Contrary (first published Sept. 1947, repr. 1962).)
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