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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Nearest
Cheat
Belief
Happiness
Perfect
Come

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