Quote#Truth
The true recipe for a miserable existence is this: Quarrel with…
Quote byJames Waddel Alexander · 1804–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Consolation: in Discourses on Select Topics, Addressed to the Suffering People of God (New York: Charles Scribner, 1853), p. 166..
English (original)
The true recipe for a miserable existence is this: Quarrel with Providence.
— James Waddel Alexander
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