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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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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.
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Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
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The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
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To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
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The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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