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Tempted

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Dec 22, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 30


Hundreds of your fellow creatures, dear lady, turn another way that they may not be tempted by the luxuries of Porridge Island to wish for gratifications they are not able to obtain.

Samuel Johnson’s rebuke to Mrs Thrale who turned up her nose at the smells of Porridge Island, an alleyway of cheap cook shops they were walking past

 
 
 

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