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Laurence Sterne Quotes:

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.

- Laurence Sterne

source: Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330

topic: Real, Acquiescence, Definitions, Real Happiness

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