“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 11
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”
"Common Places," No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
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