Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
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People who think they are better than everyone else, however, will often refuse to smile at a person in need. So it is with the really high-minded people of this world. Most of them are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s. They do not even want their own friends to be happy, because they think their friends do not deserve happiness.

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