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Happiness implies resource and security; it can be achieved only by discipline.
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“Happiness implies resource and security; it can be achieved only by discipline.”

George Santayana

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The Life of Reason
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1905
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Stable happiness is linked with cultivated capacity and order rather than with impulse, luck, or momentary pleasure alone.

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The Life of Reason; Santayana connects happiness with disciplined resources and a secure basis for living.

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For of course rashness is the note of youth, prudence of old age.
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“For of course rashness is the note of youth, prudence of old age.”

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