The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Improvisatore

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Happiness The little things

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Improvisatore

Language

English

Time

1828 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Improvisatore. c. 1828.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Improvisatore." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, edited by William Keach. Penguin Classics, 1997.

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