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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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Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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