The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes t…

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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture. ✨ Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). Life and Writings, p.311
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture. ✨ Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). Life and Writings, p.311

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