“How strangely easy difficult things are!”
Charles Buxton (1823–1871) English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 83
“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
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American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935–1984Related quotes
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