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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 464 — SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.

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'Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable.' Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. See ante, iii. 350, where Boswell is reproached by Johnson with 'bringing in gabble,' when he makes this quotation.

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