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Excerpt from Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; With Anecdotes, of Distinguished Persons; Selected and Arranged From Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
Johnson used also to say, that if a man talked Of his misfortunes, we might depend upon it there was something in them not disagreeable to him for where there was nothing but pure misery, there never was any recourse to the mention Of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
