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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Source: Rambler, no. 155 (London) 10 Sep 1751.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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