Security will produce danger. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1788). Letters to and …

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Security will produce danger. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1788). Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed, p.139
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