When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence aRate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)Say it

Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

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