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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Should

"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."

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Rand Paul Politician
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"I think [Donald Trump] has to do everything he can to set up a firewall between him and his businesses. But I think it's unrealistic for people to be saying, oh, he should just sell all of his businesses."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult."

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