Samuel Johnson Quotes About Torture
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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?
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The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.
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