481. Government; Impotence; Negligence;
Resignation
"Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can
punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at
ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the
request when they lose sight of the petitioner."
Johnson: Rasselas [Narrator]
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1,874. Negligence
"Most of the crimes and miseries of our lives arise rather from negligence, than ignorance."
Johnson: Sermon 19
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