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Olympia Brown

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

Happiness

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True understanding of happiness requires giving up something valuable now for a better outcome later or putting the needs of others before your own. Without making these sacrifices, a person cannot truly grasp what happiness is, just as a blind person cannot truly understand colors.

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