Samuel Johnson
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I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd, p.24

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