When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, l…

Samuel Johnson
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, p.375
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