ᐅ When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson | QuotesTrue.com

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)

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