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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
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The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
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