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“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.
— Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson, The Idler, No. 58 (26 May 1759)
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