refute quotes

'I refute it thus.'

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
   Johnson refutes Bishop Berkeley's theory of the non- existence of matter by kicking a large stone, 6  Aug. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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