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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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