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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Whatever you have spend less.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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