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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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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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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
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