but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in

~ Walter Shandy

From somewhere in volume 3 of the Birkbeck Hill edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson:

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

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