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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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