Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ✨ Samuel…

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ✨ Samuel Johnson (2014). The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776, p.133, Princeton University Press
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