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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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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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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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Nature never gives everything at once.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
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