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Je préfère la pilule doree pour tout le monde

"What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco." "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says SAMUEL JOHNSON )? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths."

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Uploaded on September 6, 2022
Taken on September 5, 2022