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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
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Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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Life protracted is protracted woe.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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