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It is our first duty to serve society.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
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When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
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Truth has no gradations nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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