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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

Samuel Johnson
Reading, Prove It, Prove
'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 108)
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.