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Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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The first step to greatness is to be honest.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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