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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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To build is to be robbed.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
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