A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." (George Bernard Shaw). Go read the Humanist…
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- George Bernard Shaw
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