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Date: 1779, 1781
"The man that sits down to suppose himself charged with treason or peculation, and heats his mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing, differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)