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  • There's absolutely nothing here to make any decent person use the word happy.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Garry 2005

  • There's absolutely nothing here to make any decent person use the word happy.

    Calling All MPs Garry 2005

  • Well, if Apple implemented DRM because of the labels, like this reader suggested, then they obviously also do this to keep the labels happy.

    Apple followers to the rescue! 2004

  • Cycle; and one who has experienced such chances and has ended wretchedly no one calls happy.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • Cycle; and one who has experienced such chances and has ended wretchedly no one calls happy.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • For there is required, as we said, not only complete virtue but also a complete life, since many changes occur in life, and all manner of chances, and the most prosperous may fall into great misfortunes in old age, as is told of Priam in the Trojan Cycle; and one who has experienced such chances and has ended wretchedly no one calls happy.

    The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

  • A hopeless bachelor who prided himself upon what he defiantly called his freedom, used to say, with an air of commiseration and extreme caution, that he supposed his married friends were probably what they called happy.

    From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858

  • Ps all your authorised posts start with the word happy.

    [Help] Most Recent Posts girlno.1 2010

  • Ps all your authorised posts start with the word happy.

    [Help] Most Recent Posts girlno.1 2010

  • Ps all your authorised posts start with the word happy.

    [Help] Most Recent Posts girlno.1 2010

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