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• Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

  ― Logan Pearsall Smith
  English writer (1865 - 1946)
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• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
  American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unpunishable
• intoxication
• capabilities
• overloaded
• paralyzed
• selfish

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