"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."

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Source: 'A Free Enquiry' (1757, ed. D. Greene, 1984) reviewing Soame Jenyns

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Samuel Johnson was an 18th-century English writer and lexicographer, known for his influential work 'A Dictionary of the English Language' and his profound insights into human nature.

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