Quote#Happiness
I confess I have often fancied myself transformed into some other…
Quote byWilkie Collins · 1824–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Law and the Lady (1875), The Law and the Lady [Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1875] ([https://books.google.com/books?id=qPmE-w86r0AC&pg=PA195 p. 195).
English (original)
I confess I have often fancied myself transformed into some other person, and have felt a certian pleasure in seeing myself in my new chracter. One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.
— Wilkie Collins
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