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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.
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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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