There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1…

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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1816). A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774, p.152
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