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Oscar Wilde quote: "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we..."

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not alway happy.

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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. James Madison