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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy their real faults are immediately detected and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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