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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
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The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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