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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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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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If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.
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A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
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Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
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No one ever became great by imitation.
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