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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
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