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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous and where among her followers will she find a husband?
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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To be of no Church is dangerous.
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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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Love is only one of many passions.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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Every man is of importance to himself.
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There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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