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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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The future is bought with the present.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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