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He who is tired of London is tired of life: Samuel Johnson

| September 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
He who is tired of London is tired of life:  Samuel Johnson

As a student of English Literature in central London I studied various writers who wrote about London. I had arrived from rural North Buckinghamshire and had absorbed the poetry of William Wordsworth about the sinfulness of city life and its temptations, presumably alehouses and brothels.

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