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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Francis Hutcheson
Happiness, Hard Work, Acting
'An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue' (1725) treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.