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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Samuel Johnson
Thinking, House, Vices
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 14 July 1763)
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.