The triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson
The triumph of hope over experience.
Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell · 1784
★ 6.3On a man who married again after the death of his first wife, with whom he had been unhappy.
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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.
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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1770," aetat. 61.