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Bertrand Russell Quotes: If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
         

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.


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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
         



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