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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
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Poetry cannot be translation
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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It is our first duty to serve society.
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He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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Don't tell me of deception a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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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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