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Samuel Johnson Quotes: A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.
         

A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.


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A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.
         



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