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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons (1797). quoted in Anecdotes by William Seward, repr. In Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, p. 308, ed. George Birkbeck Hill (1897). Referring to a violinist’s playing.

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