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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told and the adage is verified in your place and my favour but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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