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Date: Saturday, January 25, 1752
"Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas, the discovery of some occult relation between images in appearance remote from each other; an effusion of wit, therefore, presupposes an accumulation of knowledge; a memory stored with notions, which the imagination may cull out to compose ne...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, January 25, 1752
"Whatever may be the native vigour of the mind, she can never form many combinations from few ideas, as many changes cannot be rung upon a few bells."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
