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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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