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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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Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
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Life admits not of delays when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
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Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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