Everyone will agree, he argues, that happiness is the ultimate end to be valued for itself and really only for itself.

他认为，每个人都会同意，幸福是且只是人们因其本身而珍视的终极目标。

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To a child, a stepmother is the personification of the end of that dream. The stepmother stands in the way of their happiness.

对一个孩子来说，一个继母是这个梦想的终结者，她站在幸福之路的中间，挡住了道路。

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But when we base our happiness on achievement, we've joined the cult of productivity. Being productive is no longer a means to an end.

但是，当我们把我们的快乐建立在成就上，我们就会对大量做事有着狂热的追求。

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King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the "gross national happiness, " and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content.

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The means to that end was the exercise of liberty in the pursuit of happiness.

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Companies produce and sell more than 400 cigarette brands in the country, ranging from the high-end Zhonghua and Double Happiness to cheaper brands like Little Panda and Yellow Pagoda.

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