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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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Long customs are not easily broken he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
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Don't tell me of deception a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
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Virtue is too often merely local.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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