Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the …

Samuel Johnson
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.522
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.522

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