“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”

—  Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&amp;images=images/modeng&amp;data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&amp;tag=public&amp;part=2&amp;division=div1 <br class="br">Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)

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