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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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