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Prevent Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
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