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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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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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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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The future is bought with the present.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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