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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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