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No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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