“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.” – Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day: “Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.” – Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was a poet, essayist, moralist, biographer, and editor, whose contributions to English literature cannot be understated—especially his massive work, “Dictionary of the English Language,” which after nine years of research was first published in 1755, a century and a half before the “Oxford English Dictionary”.

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