“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”
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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939Related quotes

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).

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“We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.”
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“Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”
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