If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Samuel Johnson
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote.
- Samuel Johnson