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Language is the dress of thought.
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 great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
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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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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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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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