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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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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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