Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gr…

Samuel Johnson
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). 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.264
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). 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.264

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