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  • Creéis que me encanta la adulación (dice el Dr. Johnson), y así es; pero un poco de más siempre me repugna: ese Richardson, por el contrario, no podía contentarse con navegar tranquilamente por la corriente de la reputación, sin ansiar probar la espuma de cada golpe de remo.

    Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). "Las bellezas de Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd", p.14