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Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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