Samuel Johnson Quote

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.


The Idler (ed. 1767)


The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and...

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and...

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and...

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and...