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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.
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A fallible being will fail somewhere.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy every other panegyric envy may withhold but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
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