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Samuel Johnson Quote

“Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty. The writer of news never fails…to tell how the enemies murdered children and ravished virgins; and, if the scene of action be somewhat distant, scalps half the inhabitants of a province.”

— Samuel Johnson

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