My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.
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See similar debate in Angel.
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!
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