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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
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Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
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