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Difficult do you...

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Source: On hearing a famous violinist. Johnsonian Miscellanies, (ed. G. B. Hill), Vol. II
-- 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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