"By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free, All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty. This, only this, the rigid Law persues, This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse."
Samuel Johnson

January 1, 1970

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London: A Poem (1738), lines 158–161

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