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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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