"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
— Emulation

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Johnson, quoted by Thomas Stothard in Harrison's British Classicks: Dr. Johnson's Rambler. Lord Lyttleton's p. 399