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Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
I have observed this in my experience of slavery,—that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Where this was said
↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org
All 18 korrents from this piecethis one is 14th
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