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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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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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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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