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Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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The whole power of cunning is privative to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.
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The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.
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Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
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Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
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Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
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