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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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 man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.
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Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
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When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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