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“To neglect at any time preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege, but to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.”
“The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.”
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”
“Brief biography at The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page”
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