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Date: Tuesday, November 20, 1750
"Yet, if we consider the conduct of those sententious philosophers, it will often be found, that they repeat these aphorisms, merely because they have somewhere heard them, because they have nothing else to say, or because they think veneration gained by such appearances of wisdom, but that no id...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 1750
"Of this kind is the well known and well attested position, 'that life is short,' which may be heard among mankind by an attentive auditor, many times a day, but which never yet within my reach of observation left any impression upon the mind."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
