A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a…

Samuel Johnson
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose. ✨ 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.202
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