“What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?”
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A Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural" (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oliphant>Wikipedia</a>).
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“What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?”
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“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”
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“It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.”
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