Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an…

Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for June 1784)
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