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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Source: Quoted in: Johnsoniana, in European Magazine (Jan. 1785; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, Anecdotes by George Stevens, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1891).
-- 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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