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• In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel.
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• PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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• Example is always more effacious than precept. Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
• There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.
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• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.