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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
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There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
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To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
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All theory is against free will all experience is for it.
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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
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A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species to remark general properties and large appearances.
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
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That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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