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...minutely and adoringly told by James Boswell, of whom Lord Macaulay wrote, " Many of the greatest men who ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and ho has beaten them all." The son of a Lichfield bookseller, young Johnson eagerly read the volumes...

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