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  • Bored of life? What Dr. Johnson didn’t say

    Posted by Michael Rundell on March 26, 2009

    Samuel Johnson famously said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”. This is sometimes misquoted as “when a man is bored with London, he is bored with life” (and sometimes wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde, but that’s another story). But what the great lexicographer definitely didn’t say was “when [...]

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