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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 30 Sept. 1769 (1791). On another occasion (1770), Johnson described the remarriage of a gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage as the triu
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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