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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
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As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
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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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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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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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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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It is our first duty to serve society.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
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Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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