Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Context: Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.
1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
“As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.”
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 143
“O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.”
Stanza 80.
Beppo (1818)
“It’s better to be happy than in pursuit of it.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Better the myth of happiness, than the myth of despair.”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)
“Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.”
Source: Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975), There Is a Tide (p. 208)
“121. Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.”
Chapters on Prayer
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 122
