"To love their country has been considered as……" — Samuel Johnson
"To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any hono."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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