“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 6, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.”
No. 398
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
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