“We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual – by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent – place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.”

“We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual – by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent – place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon