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Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Samuel Johnson
Men, Wish, Native Place
Letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 17 July 1771, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 141
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.