Life of Johnson.
'J’ALKING of melancholy, he said, “ Some men, and very thinking men, too, have not those vexing thoughts Sir Joshua Reynolds is the same all the year round. Beauclerk, except when ill and in pain, is the ssme. But I believe most men have them in the degree in which they are capable of having them If I were in the country, and were distressed by that malady, I would force myself to take a book: and every time I did it I should find it the easier. Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20359, 17 July 1934, Page 6
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100Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20359, 17 July 1934, Page 6
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