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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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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
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Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
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