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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Source: Quoted in: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786; repr.in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 1, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1891, p. 222).
-- 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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