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Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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