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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
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Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
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No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
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Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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