“I am disappointed by that stroke of death that has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.”

—  David Garrick

Samuel Johnson; carved on Garrick's memorial in Lichfield Cathedral http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-2605
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