What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a y…

Samuel Johnson
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. ✨ Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). The Poems of Samuel Butler ..., p.278
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