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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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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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Round numbers are always false.
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
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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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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans we may therefore subject them to government.
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Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
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