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“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”

— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 106 (23 March 1751)
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About Samuel Johnson

1709 – 1784

English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.

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