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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
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A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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