Samuel Johnson: Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, h

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itse — Samuel Johnson

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Samuel Johnson

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