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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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