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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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