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What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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All's well that ends well which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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