Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. (John Stuart Mill)

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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