Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. - Samuel Johnson

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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

Samuel Johnson

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

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