The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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