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The triumph of hope over experienceMeaning
OriginThis remark is reported to have been said by Samuel Johnson in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. The occasion was Johnson's hearing of a man who had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been unhappily married. Phrasefinder is also on
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A literal view of the subject of remarriage.
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