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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Source: Lives of the English Poets, Pope (1779-81), referring to Alexander Pope.
-- 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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