Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
“It's like Shelley. Like Werther. Like a Japanese Ophelia. Like a beautiful Oriental Lady in the Lake.”
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