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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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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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Every man is of importance to himself.
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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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A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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