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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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