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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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