Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) thought writing hard.
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (quoting Samuel Johnson in entry for Apr. 14, 1778).
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