Note 1245 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 7)
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Mr. Hoole, senior, records of this day:—'Dr. Johnson exhorted me to lead a better life than he had done. "A better life than you, my dear Sir:" I repeated. He replied warmly, "Don't compliment not." Croker's Boswell, p. 844