Quote#Happiness
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and…
Quote byKatharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould · 1879–1944
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Modes and Morals (1920), Ch. 1.
English (original)
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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