Quote#Happiness
By many a happy accident
Quote byThomas Middleton · 1580–1627
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "A happy accident", Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii..
English (original)
By many a happy accident.
— Thomas Middleton
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In spite of my teeth.
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