While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (10 Apr 1776)

In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

 
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