Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. (Samuel Johnson)

Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Samuel Johnson

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