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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
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He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
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A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
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Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
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