When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Life of Johnson (Boswell).1Vol. vi. Chap. ix. 1777.
Note 1. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.
Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]
