Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! - Samuel Johnson

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The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

Samuel Johnson

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

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