Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. - Samuel Johnson

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when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

Samuel Johnson

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

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