Actions are visible, though motives are secret. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Roge…

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Actions are visible, though motives are secret. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Roger H. Lonsdale (2006). Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets, p.330, Oxford University Press
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Roger H. Lonsdale (2006). Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets, p.330, Oxford University Press

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