"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it."
"To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness."
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Source: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 12), 1990.
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