Oliver Goldsmith again:
"This answer was was by no means agreeable to the vain monarch, who, by his question, only hoped for a reply that would tend to flatter his pride. Willing, therefore, to extort one still more favourable, he asked, whether, at least, he did not think him happy? Alas! cried Solon, what man can be pronounced happy before he dies?"
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