Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an eq…

Samuel Johnson
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ✨ Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). The table talk of Samuel Johnson, p.120
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