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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim and when you are calculating, calculate.
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When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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