“Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”

Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 1207.
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Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician 1736–1796

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