Who coined the phrase " Ignorance is bliss "?
Who coined the phrase " Ignorance is bliss "?
It is so common, I don't know if there even was one person or book that coined the phrase.
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray, "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" 1742
Steed
Somebody's finding a use for Gray, it seems... Nicely done, I haven't developed much of a liking for his stuff, as of yet. I'm sure that'll come in time.
Yeah, I'm giving the 'wink' and the 'gun' like Ponch from Chips, big whoop wanna fight about it?
guess I was wrong... apparently it really does happen to the worst of us.
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
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