Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) Hungarian-American psychiatrist, educator
“Happiness,” The Second Sin (1973)

 
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