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Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.
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I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
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The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
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Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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