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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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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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The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
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Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
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To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
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High people, sir, are the best take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
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Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
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If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
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Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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