"And where can you find it, if you ever can? We all know that its pursuit is guaranteed, right there in the Declaration of Independence—sort of improbably; I don't think many political charters include such a lighthearted instruction, the phrase "the pursuit of happiness" suggesting picnics and fireworks and flirtation more than it suggests the stern work of revolution…"
— All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters by Adam Gopnik
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