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I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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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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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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