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Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Samuel Johnson
Authority, Wells, Employed
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.271

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Samuel Johnson
Unhappiness, Authority, Controversy
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.115

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