Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where…

Samuel Johnson
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. ✨ In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 August 1773 (Boswell having asked if someone should commit suicide to avoid certain disgrace)
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. ✨ In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 August 1773 (Boswell having asked if someone should commit suicide to avoid certain disgrace)

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