The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed b…

Samuel Johnson
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1800). The Idler: With Additional Essays, p.63
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