Life of Johnson. Johnson. “ I cannot say, Sir, as we find no people quite in a state of nature: but I think the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people: a lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her foot. What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country.” celebrated Mrs Rudd being mentioned. Johnson. “ Fifteen years ago I should have gone to see her.” Spottiswoode. “ Because she was fifteen years younger?” Johnson. “No. Sir. but now they have a trick of putting every thing into the news-papers.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 6
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