Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
“Revenge! No — what good would that do? — it would make him no better, and me no happier.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVII : The Neighbour Again; Helen to Walter
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Anne Brontë 148
British novelist and poet 1820–1849Related quotes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 308.

“If we could manage any sort of trust again… Well. That would make me happier than you can imagine”
Source: Shadow Heir

Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994)
In Concert

translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik heb het eenige nog niet verkochte schilderij dat voorl. jaar te Rotterdam was, overgeschilderd.. .Mij dunkt, dat het er nog al aangenaam en goed uitziet.. .Ik wilde dat gij hem zevenhonderd guldens voor vroeg.. ..voor zeshonderd zou ik het uiterlijk kunnen laten en meent gij, hem kennende, het beter zou zijn dadelijk die prijs te vragen zoo doe het dan.
Quote from a letter of W. Roelofs, Brussel 20 June, 1860, to art-collector/dealer P. verloren van Themaat in Utrecht, from: an extract of the Dutch Archive RKD, The Hague https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/289
this letter is one of many illustrations that Roelofs repainted his paintings rather frequently, as improvement or on demand of the client
1860's

God Only Knows (co-written with Tony Asher)
Pet Sounds (1966)