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Eighteenth Century - Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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English
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05/10/2011
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SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Vanity of Human Wishes"

 

"How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,

Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice" (11-12)

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SAMUEL JOHNSON

"The Vanity of Human Wishes"

 

"Fall in the general masaacre of gold;

Wide-wasting pest! that rages uncontrolled,

And crowds with crimes the records of manking" (22-24)

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