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Samuel Johnson

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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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1750.

 
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

 
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His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

 
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

 
George Bernard Shaw
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