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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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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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A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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People seldom read a book which is given to them and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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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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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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To build is to be robbed.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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