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Johnson's divided mind.(Samuel Johnson)
On March 29, I777, the night before Easter, Samuel Johnson wrote an apologetic note in his diary: "I treated with the booksellers on a bargain, but the time was not long." By custom, Johnson set aside Easter Eve for meditation, weighing up his achievements and failures over the past year; doing any business that day seemed, to his painfully active conscience, a kind of offense against both piety and self-discipline. But at least, he reassured himself, it did not take too much time for him to agree to the proposal that the booksellers had brought him: to write brief prefaces for a new edition of English poets.
The three men who visited Johnson that day were ...
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