I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are…

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 18 Sept. 1773.

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