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It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1709–1784)
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 71; printed byline: Samuel Johnson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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