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Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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