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No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
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In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
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