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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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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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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
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