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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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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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