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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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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.
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We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
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