The great source of pleasure is variety. ✨ 'The Lives of the English P…

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The great source of pleasure is variety. ✨ 'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Butler'
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Judgment is forced upon us by experience ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works, p.502
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