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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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None are happy but by anticipation of change.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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