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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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