“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”

—  Samuel Johnson

1781, p. 479
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

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