For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moral…

Bertrand Russell
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For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Bertrand Russell's Best, p.120, Routledge
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For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Bertrand Russell's Best, p.120, Routledge

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