Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler, p.41
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