That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (1770)

Quoting Rev. Dr. Maxwell (1770), in reference to a "dull, tiresome" acquaintance.In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

 
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