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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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