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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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