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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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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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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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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
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Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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