"Nobody has the right to put another under……" — Samuel Johnson
"Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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