Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk an…

Samuel Johnson
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 166 (31 March 1772)
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 166 (31 March 1772)

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