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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
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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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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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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.
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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