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		faragon on July 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live... Bertrand Russell already put most of that in a book in 1930: "The Conquest of Happiness" [1] [1] Some quotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Happiness

dolzenko on July 21, 2017 [–]

Was always a fan of his essay "In Praise of Idleness" [1] but never bothered to check if he had more to say on the subject of happiness in general, interesting read, thank you!

[1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

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