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Ickmeister
05-28-2003, 11:38 PM
Who coined the phrase " Ignorance is bliss "?
imthefoolonthehill
05-31-2003, 03:04 AM
It is so common, I don't know if there even was one person or book that coined the phrase.
Lorenzo Steed
06-14-2003, 12:20 AM
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
Eric, son of Chuck
06-14-2003, 12:55 PM
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.
imthefoolonthehill
06-15-2003, 12:05 AM
guess I was wrong... apparently it really does happen to the worst of us.