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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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