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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
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We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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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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