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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.
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Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
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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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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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