Life of Johnson.
]CEXT MORXIX.G, while we were at M breakfast, Johnson gave a very earnest recommendation of what he himself practised with the utmost conscientiousness: I mean 'a strict attention to truth, even in the most minute particulars. “ Accustom you* children (said he,) constantly to this: if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them: you do not know where deviation from truth will end.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 6
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84Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 6
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