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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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