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Humboldt Quote

“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself—nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

— Humboldt

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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