A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.10:Is Happiness still possible?
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