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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not 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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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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