Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetab…

Samuel Johnson
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.493
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