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Johnsonian Miscellanies, PDF eBook

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Dr. Johnson used to say, that where secrecy or mystery began, vice or roguery was not far off; and that he leads in general an ill life, who stands in fear of no man's observation.<br><br>When a friend of his who had not been very lucky in his first wife, married a second, he said - Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.<br><br>Of Sheridan's writings on Elocution, he said, they were a continual renovation of hope, and an unvaried succession of disappointments.

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