Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of s…

Samuel Johnson
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Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1854). Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes, p.56
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