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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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By writing, you learn to write.
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As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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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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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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