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Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
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Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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No one ever became great by imitation.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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This is my history like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
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It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
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