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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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 roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury for, as I said before it can reach but a very few.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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