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Read & copy
“But it is wonderful how soon you get used to things, even the things you want most.”
Meaning & context
The narrator notices that even long-desired changes can quickly lose their novelty once they become part of everyday life.
Source details
The Wouldbegoods, represented by Project Gutenberg #794. The observation appears in Nesbit’s comic children’s fiction and is filtered through the story’s child-centered narrative voice; it is literary observation rather than a measured claim about happiness.