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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
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It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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