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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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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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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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