{"id":38562,"date":"2013-08-24T00:21:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T06:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/consider-my-reason-seduced.html"},"modified":"2013-08-24T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T06:21:26","slug":"consider-my-reason-seduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/consider-my-reason-seduced.html","title":{"rendered":"Consider my reason seduced"},"content":{"rendered":"
And amiability is just one of my lovely wife's charms.<\/p>\n

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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.<\/p>\n

— Samuel Johnson<\/b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Letter (21 Dec 1762)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Johnson, Samuel – Letter (21 Dec 1762) | WIST<\/a>
\n There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.In James Boswell, The Life of Sa\n <\/p>\n

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And amiability is just one of my lovely wife's charms. Reshared post from +WIST – Wish I’d Said That There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. — Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, criticLetter (21 Dec 1762)\u00a0 More … #qotd \u00a0 … Continue reading “Consider my reason seduced”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[430,431,432],"class_list":["post-38562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-qotd","tag-quotation","tag-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49744,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/paranoia-in-american-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":38562,"position":0},"title":"Paranoia in American Politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Mar-15 2:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The extremism that we see today is nothing new, and Hofstadter sums it up well here. 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