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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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