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I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness. Johnson, Samuel

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Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English critic, poet and essayist. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version.

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