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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
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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, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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