Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
Birthday: November 24
Death: March 18
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.
source: Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330
topic: Real, Acquiescence, Definitions, Real Happiness