“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
“Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!”
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
Source: Little Women
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Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray