No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ✨ Quoted in James …

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 5 Apr. 1776)
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 5 Apr. 1776)

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