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“Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous.”

— Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)
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About Samuel Johnson

1709 – 1784

English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.

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