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Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“Lesson no. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story”
Variant: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
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