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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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A vow is a snare for sin
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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