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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

John Grierson

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Einige von uns lernten in einer philosophischen Schule, die lehrte, dass alles für das Gemeinwohl und nichts für sich selbst sei, und haben das Streben nach Glück auf keinen Fall als etwas anderes als eine Abweichung des menschlichen Geistes betrachtet.

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