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There mark what...

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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Source: Vanity of Human Wishes.
-- 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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