Quote#Solitude
If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of…
Quote byThomas Hardy · 1840–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Two on a Tower (1882), Vol 1, ch. 4 (Swithin St Cleeve speaking to Viviette Constantine).
English (original)
If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.
— Thomas Hardy
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