Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!”
On the coming of the railways, in The Birth of the Modern (1991), by Paul Johnson. p. 993.
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