His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks…

Samuel Johnson
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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works, p.554
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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works, p.554

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