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Whatever you have spend less.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
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It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
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To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
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A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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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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Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
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