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Author name:
"Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: Tuesday, August 28, 1750
"Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away."
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Date: 1779, 1781
"Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason; they have an intrinsick and unalterable value, and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction: but gold may be so concealed in baser matter that only a chymist can recover it; sense may be so hidden in unrefined and plebe...
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