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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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The future is bought with the present.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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