“ It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all-sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! ”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862). copy citation
Author | Victor Hugo |
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Source | Les Misérables |
Topic | happiness duty |
Date | 1862 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood in 1887 |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135-h/135-h.htm |