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“Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk. Line 246.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 71c9c414255149b5971077593a1440167151d504614f4ebe9d1a185b9e8e59c3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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