The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tendern…

Samuel Johnson
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The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler, p.469
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The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler, p.469

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