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Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

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-- 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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