Quotation Explorer - 'Fretted'

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts.
Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. - Samuel Johnson
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