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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
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Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
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There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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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All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
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