Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. ✨ In James Boswell…

Samuel Johnson
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 79 (6 October 1769); responding to a line from Garrick's 'Florizel and Perdita' act 2, sc. 1: 'They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor'
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 79 (6 October 1769); responding to a line from Garrick's 'Florizel and Perdita' act 2, sc. 1: 'They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor'

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