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Money will not buy you happiness.

We’ve probably all said that at some point. Mostly to try and convince ourselves that the fact we didn’t win Lotto is no biggie.

"Ahh, all those millions - would’ve been more trouble than they were worth."

And ironically, that’s what Harvard University has been saying this week after crunching the numbers on its Study of Adult Development, which has been the world’s longest research project looking into what makes people happy.

Since 1938, Harvard has tracked a whole lot of people to find out what makes life satisfying and what doesn’t.

And this week they’ve…

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