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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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