What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with dili…

Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1831). The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons, p.47
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