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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

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Boswell records Johnson saying it during a walk through the city, in the section of the Life in which he complains about London fog and crowds. The remark is an argument about appetite rather than about scenery.

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell

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