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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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Games are good or bad as to their nature all may be perverted.
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
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Long customs are not easily broken he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.
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It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
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The first step to greatness is to be honest.
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
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