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Samuel Johnson

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

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

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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