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Samuel Johnson1709–1784

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Samuel Johnson on hope

Letter (8 June 1762) [to an unnamed recipient], p. 103

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