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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Source: Quoted in: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, vol. 1 (1786; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1897, p. 251).
-- 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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