“Well, I've had a happy life.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
Last words (18 September 1830), quoted by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt, in Memoirs of William Hazlitt (1867) vol. II, p. 238
“I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.”
As quoted in his obituary in The Independent (11 July 2003) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article36741.ece
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