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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving 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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Revenge is an act of passion vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged crimes are avenged.
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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
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Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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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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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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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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