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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.