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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
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