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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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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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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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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
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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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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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