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"Come, come, let's have no sneering at what is serious to so many: hundreds of your fellow-creatures, dear lady, turn another way that they may not be tempted by the luxuries of Porridge Island to wish for {123} gratifications they are not able to obtain: you are certainly not better than all of them: give God thanks that you are happier."
Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897
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"Which pleasure," answered I pertly, "is to be enjoyed in perfection by such as have the happiness to pass through Porridge Island of a morning."
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Hundreds of your fellow-creatures, dear lady, turn another way, that they may not be tempted by the luxuries of Porridge Island to wish for gratifications they are not able to obtain.
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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