There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one ai…

Samuel Johnson
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. ✨ 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.494
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. ✨ 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.494

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