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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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