Tom Johnson

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“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)

“This mournful truth is ev’rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)