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SECOND TIME AROUND
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married a second time, immediately after his first wife died. Samuel Johnson said of him: “His conduct was the triumph of hope over experience.” 2500 Anecdotes For All Occasions, ed. Edmund Fuller (Avenal, New York, 1980).

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