I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can…

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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

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