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GOLDSMITH. Here's such...

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GOLDSMITH. Here's such a stir about a fellow that has written one book, and I have written many.
JOHNSON. Ah, Doctor, there go two-and-forty sixpences you know to one guinea.

Source: Referring to Beattie's Essay on Truth. Johnsonian Miscellanies, (ed. G. B. Hill), Vol. I
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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