"Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope……" — Samuel Johnson
"Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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