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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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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it for he that lives well cannot be despised.
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Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
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Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
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