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I had rather...

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Source: Quoted in: Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions, in Works, vol. 11 (ed. by Sir John Hawkins, 1787 --9; repr.in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, p.15, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1891).
-- 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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