Quote#Happiness
The happiness of life ... is made up of minute fractions — the little…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Improvisatore", in S. C. Hall (ed.) The Amulet, yr. 3 (1828), p. 44.
English (original)
The happiness of life ... is made up of minute fractions — the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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