It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human ple…

Samuel Johnson
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. ✨ In Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 206
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. ✨ In Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 206

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