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Samuel Johnson
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. ✨ The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. ✨ The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.

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