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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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