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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
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The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
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