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All theory is against free will all experience is for 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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Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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