ᐅ I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right. – Samuel Johnson | QuotesTrue.com

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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

Samuel Johnson

'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 108)

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