Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fea…

Samuel Johnson
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty. ✨ Samuel Johnson, John Hawkesworth (1820). Rasselas, prince of Abissinia, p.48
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