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Practising self-restraint and renunciation is not happiness, though it may be something better

Drawn from what Thomas Henry Huxley said

Subjecthappiness
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happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.

What Thomas Henry Huxley actually said

  1. Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and advocate of Darwin's theory (1825 to 1895)
    But the practice of self-restraint and renunciation is not happiness, though it may be something much better.

    Where this was said

    ↗Evolution and Ethics: Prolegomena and Romanes Lecture (1893-1894)gutenberg.org

    c. 1893–1894

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