DR. JOHNSON’S OPINIONS OF LONDON.--“It is not in the showy evolution of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.... The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom.... A man stores his mind [in London] better than anywhere else.... No place cures a man’s vanity or arrogance so well as London, for no man is either great or good, _per se_, but as compared with others, not so good or great, and he is sure to find in the metropolis many his equals and some his sup…
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