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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. ii. Chap. v. 1763.
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