If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. (Bertrand Russell)

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

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