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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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