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Security will produce danger.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
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I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
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Don't tell me of deception a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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I have already enjoyed too much give me something to desire.
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
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There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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