Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (1777-09-19)
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In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

 
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