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Quote by Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrate

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? – David Brin

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The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. – Arthur Miller, After the Fall, 1964

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Life, if well lived, is long enough. – Seneca, De Ira

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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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