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Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Nathaniel Hawthorne on happiness

The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1851

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