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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Source: To Mrs. Thomas Sheridan, on publication of her novel, Memoirs of Mrs. Sydney Biddulph. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1763 (1791).
-- 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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