Friday, July the 9th, 2004
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“His epitaph upon the duck he killed by treading on it at five years old—Here lies poor duck / That Samuel Johnson trod on; / If it had liv'd it had been good luck, / For it would have been an odd one—is a striking example of early expansion of mind and knowledge of language” — Hesther Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.