Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author and poet

18 September 1709 — 13 December 1784

quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson

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