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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

Note 21 — AMUSEMENTS OF THE LEARNED.

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The same anecdote is related of Dr. Johnson, who once being at a club where other literary men were indulging in jests, upon the entry of a new visitor exclaimed, "Let us be grave—here is a fool coming."

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