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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1167 |
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AUTHOR:
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Samuel Johnson (1709–84) |
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QUOTATION:
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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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SAMUEL JOHNSON.—James Boswell, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. George B. Hill, rev. and enl. ed., ed. L. F. Powell, entry for 1770, vol. 2, p. 128 (1934). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Marriage |
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