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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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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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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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