The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ✨ Samuel…

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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1798). Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, p.91
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1798). Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, p.91

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