"The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has……" — Samuel Johnson
"The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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