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Something Rhymes with Purple

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The History of Happiness

When does the word happiness literally come into the language? So happy and happiness. We're talking probably 15th century. And essentially it came to mean the feelings of pleasure rather than luck by about the 16th century. It's only really in the 18th century that the idea that we should all be happy became commonplace.

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