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George Bernard Shaw on Consuming Happiness

August 02, 2019

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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
—George Bernard Shaw

Check out the August Action for Happiness calendar here. This month’s theme is kindness.

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