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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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