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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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