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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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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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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
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Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.
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Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
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Assertion is not argument to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
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