I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquain…

Samuel Johnson
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)
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