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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will make misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you: you will be as wretched as you choose.
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will make misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you: you will be as wretched as you choose.
Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Charles Kingsley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 340; printed byline: Charles Kingsley; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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