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October 8, 2011
Johnson Sez...
BOSWELL:Observing some beggars in the street as we walked along, I said to him I supposed there was no civilized country in the world, where the misery of want in the lowest classes of the people was prevented.JOHNSON.
'I believe, Sir, there is not; but it is better that some should be unhappy, than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.' -- The Life of Samuel Johnson
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What Johnnson did not quite devine is that in a state of equality no man is happy and has even lost his understanding of what that is.
Posted by: james wilson at August 24, 2009 9:26 AM
Equality, it's good for the Kulaks.
Posted by: Peccable at October 9, 2011 10:05 AM