Quote#Happiness
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky…
Quote byWalter Pater · 1839–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Marius the Epicurean (1885), Ch. 6.
English (original)
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
— Walter Pater
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