In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground.


Quoted by Samuel Johnson (1783). From Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791), vol. II, p. 457 (Everyman edition)

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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground.