Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my…

Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, p.363
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, p.363

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