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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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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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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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