Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.Samuel Johnson
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age, is to sleep At an attack.
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This was a good enough dinner, to be sure but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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