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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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 look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
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