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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 369
AUTHOR: Samuel Johnson (1709–84)
QUOTATION: Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
ATTRIBUTION: SAMUEL JOHNSON.—James Boswell, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. George B. Hill, rev. and enl. ed., ed. L. F. Powell, entry for September 19, 1777, vol. 3, p. 167 (1934).
SUBJECTS: Death
 


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