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God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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