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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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