“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”

—  Samuel Johnson, book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47

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English writer 1709–1784

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