There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Samuel Johnson
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There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. ✨ Parodying Henry Brooke, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 313 (June 1784).
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1977). Selected Poetry and Prose, p.235, Univ of California Press
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