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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Source: Quoted in: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Feb. 1766 (1791). Johnson was arguing against the proposition by David Hume (in the essay The Sceptic) that a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a danc
-- 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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