Samuel Johnson
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, p.115

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