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The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.
Samuel Johnson
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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
Noah Webster
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The confident surgeon is like a military captain who by a well-timed advance changes defeat into victory, returning with the priceless trophy of life and health.
Adoniram Judson
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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