Happiness cannot be purchased or bestowed; it must be earned... - Catharine Macaulay

"Happiness cannot be purchased or bestowed; it must be earned through the exercise of one's faculties."

Catharine Macaulay Happiness

Historian Political Writer English 1731–1791

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