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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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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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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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