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The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
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 law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
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It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
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I will take no more physick, not even my opiates for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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