...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportiona…

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...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1854). Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes, p.244
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...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1854). Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes, p.244

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