You may dine at a Club every day,
and sup with one of the members every night; and you may be as much at
publick places as one who has seen them all would wish to be. But you
must take care to attend constantly in Westminster-Hall; both to mind
your business, as it is almost all learnt there, (for nobody reads now;)
and to shew that you want to have business. And you must not be too
often seen at publick places, that competitors may not have it to say,
"He is always at the Playhouse or at Ranelagh, and never to be found at
his chambers." And, Sir, there must be a kind of solemnity in the manner
of a professional man. I have nothing particular to say to you on the
subject. All this I should say to any one; I should have said it to Lord
Thurlow twenty years ago.'
On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not
well to-day, and said very little, employing himself chiefly in reading
Euripides. He expressed some displeasure at me, for not observing
sufficiently the various objects upon the road.
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