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...struck this out of " The Vicar of Wakefield." Johnson added that he struck out another fine passage : " When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish...new propositions. But I soon gave this over, for I generally found that what was new was false." Lessing began a critique in much the same way: "This...

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