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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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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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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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