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fit4u2day | 18:55 Sun 18th Dec 2005 | People & Places

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when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.I heard that a peele or something like that said that not Samuel Johnson like it states.

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According to Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Samuel Johnson wrote this in the Life of Boswell, Vol. 3 page 178. 19th September 1777.

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Boswell wrote the biography of Johnson, in which he quoted Johnson saying this. Can't find any evidence that anyone else said it earlier.

I can categorically state that the quote is from Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell, in his famous biography of Johnson.

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