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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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 left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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