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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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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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Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
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