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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Samuel Johnson
Reading, Writing, Enjoy Life
'A Free Enquiry' (1757, ed. D. Greene, 1984) reviewing Soame Jenyns
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.