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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
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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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Whatever you have spend less.
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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.
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No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
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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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What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
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Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
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