There is also another sense in which a person who has it is happy at a particular time, and there are some who are happy in hope of becoming so. The kind of happiness they have is inferior to that of those who have the real thing.
 Saint Augustine, Confessions (401). copy citation

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Author Saint Augustine
Source Confessions
Topic happiness hope
Date 401
Language English
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Note Translated by Henry Chadwick
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