It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet…

Samuel Johnson
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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, p.358
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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, p.358

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