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Life of Johnson, Volume 5

Note 783 — TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5.

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See ante, iv. 295, where Boswell asked Johnson 'if he would not have done more good if he had been more gentle.' JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; I have done more good as I am. Obscenity and impiety have always been repressed in my company.'

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