"I read Mandeville forty, or, I believe, fifty years ago. He did not puzzle me; he opened my views into real life very much."
— Bernard Mandeville

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Johnson in conversation, April 15, 1778, reported in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1791) p. 948