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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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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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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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Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
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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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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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