Men continually forget that Happiness is a condition of Mind, and not a disposition of circumstances, and one of the most common of errors is that of confusing happiness with the means of happiness, sacrificing the first for the attainment of the second.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky The map of life; conduct and character (1899)

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