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• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
• We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine. Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
• We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so.
• We could be so happy you and me.
• On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.
  (One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.) -- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 559
• Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you
  for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them....
• If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
  -- Immanuel Hermass von Fichte...
• But suppose we sent a crew to plant an explosive precisely on the fault line between this mass of coffee grounds and this deposit of America Online floppy disks.
  Professor "In theory, it could work." -General "In theory, perhaps, but you'll never find a crew willing to take on a mission so suicidally dangerous....