There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
James Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman, rev. ed., (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970), p. 307 (14 July, 1763).
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