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  • Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Letter to Sir  Joshua Reynolds,17  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

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