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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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None are happy but by anticipation of change.
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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.
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
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Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
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Poetry cannot be translation
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