"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
About Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
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