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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children and those who marry early, with their partners.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
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