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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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