There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will …

Samuel Johnson
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There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752, p.150
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There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752, p.150

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