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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet.

Source: Rambler, no. 193 (London, 21 Jan. 1752; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 5, ed. by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss, 1969).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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