Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of…

Samuel Johnson
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.]., p.103
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