The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally g…

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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, p.185
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