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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1781·London, England

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.

Read the passage→The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia · Chapter XLVII
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