“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

—  Samuel Johnson

September 20, 1777, p. 356
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

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