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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
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The future is bought with the present.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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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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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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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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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
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There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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