About Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784
English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.
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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.”