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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Source: Letter, 21 Dec. 1762. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).
-- 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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