"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
-Samuel Johnson
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.“
-Samuel Johnson
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