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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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