"He that is pushing his predecessors into the……" — Samuel Johnson

"He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence"

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