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So far as people act by class, they think happiness is doing what their ordinary self likes

Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said

Subjecthappiness
What this subject means

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

What Matthew Arnold actually said

  1. Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
    All of us, so far as we are Barbarians, Philistines, or Populace, imagine happiness to consist in doing what one's ordinary self likes.

    Where this was said

    ↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org

    c. 1867–1869

    All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 13th

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