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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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