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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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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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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
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