"Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a……" — Samuel Johnson
"Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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The beggarly last doit.
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
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