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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
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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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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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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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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
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