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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
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