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Sir, they are...

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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Source: Quoted in: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 21 March 1776 (1791).
-- 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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