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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
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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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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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