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Samuel Johnson: It is a great blunder in the pursuit of happiness, not to know when we have got…

It is a great blunder in the pursuit of happiness, not to know when we have got it; that is, not to be content with a reasonable and possible measure of it.

In today’s wordsIt's a great blunder in the pursuit of happiness not to know when we've found it, that is, not to be content with a reasonable, achievable measure of it.

Samuel JohnsonCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Cassell's Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words, compiled by W. Gurney Benham, 1914

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