"According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.“


-John Buchanan Robinson

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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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