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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
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 Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
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The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
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To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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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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Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
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A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
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Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.
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