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Dante, Purgatorio, ix, 19.

NOTE 6

Dante, Inferno, iii, 1, 9.

NOTE 7

Dante, Purgatorio, iv, 88.

NOTE 8

Dhammapada, transl. Charles R. Lanman, in Hymns of the Faith, A. J. Edmunds, Chicago, 1902, page 38.

THE QUEST OF HAPPINESS

A STUDY OF VICTORY OVER LIFE’S TROUBLES

BY NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS

Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn; author of “The Influence of Christ in Modern Life,” etc.

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It is a book full of help and sympathy, marked by a wide acquaintance with literature and with life, and by a true insight into those conditions which make for the truest and best existence. S. P. CADMAN, Pastor of Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn.

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THE PLEASURES OF LIFE

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THE USE OF LIFE

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