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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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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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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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By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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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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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
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