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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
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As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
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What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
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