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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
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