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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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