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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 inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
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Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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