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The vicious count their years virtuous, their acts.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
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Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
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