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"Rambler, No. 74"
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Date: Saturday, December 1, 1750
"No disease of the mind can more fatally disable it from benevolence, the chief duty of social beings, than ill-humour or peevishness; for though it breaks not out in paroxysms of outrage, nor bursts into clamour, turbulence, and bloodshed, it wears out happiness by slow corrosion, and small inju...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)