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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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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.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy knowledge is not always present.
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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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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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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