It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as…

Samuel Johnson
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It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752, p.150
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