“Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!”

—  Samuel Johnson

July 6, 1763, p. 120
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

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