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It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking;. . .
Source: Letter, 21 June 1775, to Hester Thrale (published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, no. 409, ed. by R. W. Chapman, 1952).
-- 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.