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Date: Saturday, November 9, 1751
"But it is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation; and that the powers of the mind, when they are unbound and expanded by the sunshine of felicity, more frequently luxuriate into follies, than blossom into goodness."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)