A man who is tired of London is tired of life.Samuel Johnson
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Writer and lexicographer · 1709 – 1784
Samuel Johnson was an English writer who compiled the first great Dictionary of the English Language in 1755. Poet, essayist and the most quoted conversationalist of his age, his life was immortalised in Boswell's famous biography.
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