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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Wealth is nothing in itself it is not useful but when it departs from us.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
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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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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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People seldom read a book which is given to them and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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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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