NPPF Preliminary: The Epigraph

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>>> (And, it gives pause
to wonder which actual footnote from Boswell's _Life_ he might have written
down in that pocketbook of his.) <<<

3 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it.
Bramston, in his "Man of Taste," has the same thought:

    "Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst."

[Johnson's meaning however, is, that a scholar who is a blockhead, must be
the worst of all blockheads, because he is without excuse. But Bramston, in
the assumed character of an ignorant coxcomb, maintains, that all scholars
are blockheads, on account of their scholarship. -- J. BOSWELL.]