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"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us"
- Ashley Montagu
Happiness
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Ashley Montagu
between June 28, 1905 and November 26, 1999. He was a famous
Scientist
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United Kingdom
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