That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong o…

Samuel Johnson
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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