If you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself
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"Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment" is a dictum by Samuel Johnson refering to the novels of Samuel Richardson .
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