No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.153
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No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.