Quotation by Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, Yale Edition, vol. 2, eds. W.J. Bate, John M. Bullitt and L.F. Powell (1963). The Idler, no. 58, first published in Universal Chronicle (London, May 26, 1759).
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