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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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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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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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Round numbers are always false.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience you will find it a calamity.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
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From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
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When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
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