"To every place of entertainment we go with expectation and desire of
being pleased; we meet others who are brought by the same motives; no
one will be the first to own the disappointment; one face reflects
the smile of another, till each believes the rest delighted, and
endeavours to catch and transmit the circulating rapture. In time,
all are deceived by the cheat to which all contribute. 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, consent to
yield to the general delusion, and, when the voluntary dream is at an
end, lament that bliss is of so short a duration."

Samuel Johnson: Idler #18 (August 12, 1758)




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Ebou Jallow
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

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