There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is someth…

Samuel Johnson
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1836). Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson, p.107
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1836). Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson, p.107

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