Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. ✨…

Samuel Johnson
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Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. ✨ Hester Lynch Piozzi, Samuel Johnson (1826). Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life, p.65
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