There's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Edith Wharton

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Topic

Happiness

Author

Edith Wharton

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Wharton, Edith. "The Last Asset." The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.

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The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them.

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Topic
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William Graham Sumner
Source
Folkways
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Citation

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

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Topic
Self-knowledge Happiness

Author

Walter Benjamin
Source
One Way Street
Language
German
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

Current Citation

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