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Quotation from The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
“when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1777 (Aetat. 68): at Ashbourne, September (Project Gutenberg #1564 (Osgood abridgment, 1917))
Boswell wonders whether he might grow tired of London if he lived there; Johnson answers that no intellectual man is willing to leave it.
Citation: "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1777 (Aetat. 68): at Ashbourne, September (Project Gutenberg #1564 (Osgood abridgment, 1917)). (id boswell-life-of-johnson-q7)
Portrait: James Boswell of Auchinleck, Joshua Reynolds, Public domain.
