Why three wishes when even one is prone to: ‘The secret ambush of a specious pray’r”?

Daily writing prompt: You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for The line of poetry in my title comes from Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes (read the poem from this link if you wish), a very specifically English eighteenth-century version of a satire by Juvenal. The story it tells so … More Why three wishes when even one is prone to: ‘The secret ambush of a specious pray’r”?