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The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
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Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
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The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
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