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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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