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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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Lichfield
Staffordshire
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Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury for, as I said before it can reach but a very few.
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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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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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife every human being in such places is a spy.
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He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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