Quote by Samuel Johnson
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. – Samuel Johnson

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it. – Maxim Gorky

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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off. – Raymond Chandler

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Murderers are not monsters, theyre men. And thats the most frightening thing about them. – Alice Sebold

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When youre finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and youre going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell cant we learn to live together like decent people? – Frank Borman

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