A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of …

Samuel Johnson
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales, p.390
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales, p.390

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