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I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting wh
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Samuel Johnson
Referring to 'Ossian' in a letter to James Macpherson, 20 January 1775: James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 298
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