James Boswell book The Life of Samuel Johnson
Spoken by Samuel Foote about a "law-Lord" (1783)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
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