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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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People seldom read a book which is given to them and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
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