I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, t…

Samuel Johnson
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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.525
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