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Fatal Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy…
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