James Boswell on London
In short: “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life” (James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson)
From The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, Scottish lawyer, diarist and author (1740–1795).
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- Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson (Project Gutenberg) · Public domain
- Also: James Boswell
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