“ Sometimes for an hour's happiness a man's machinery makes him pay years of misery. ”
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Source | The Mysterious Stranger |
| Topic | happiness misery |
| Date | 1916 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3186/3186-h/3186-h.htm |
Context
“Such a man goes through life almost ignorant of what happiness is. Everything he touches, everything he does, brings a misfortune upon him. You have seen such people? To that kind of a person life is not an advantage, is it? It is only a disaster. Sometimes for an hour's happiness a man's machinery makes him pay years of misery. Don't you know that? It happens every now and then. I will give you a case or two presently. Now the people of your village are nothing to me—you know that, don't you?”
I did not like to speak out too flatly, so I said I had suspected it.”
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